Rick Kazman

Toward Agile Architecture: Insights from 15 Years of ATAM Data

2015 · IEEE Software

Agile teams strive to balance short-term feature development with longer-term quality concerns. These evolutionary approaches often hit a "complexity wall"' from the cumulative effects of unplanned changes, resulting in unreliable, poorly performing software. So, the …

Assessing an architecture's ability to support feature evolution

2018

Enabling rapid feature delivery is essential for product success and is therefore a goal of software architecture design. But how can we determine if and to what extent an architecture is "good enough" to support …

An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Android Apps

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Technical debt describes situations where developers write less-than-optimal code to meet project milestones. However, this debt accumulation often results in future developer effort to live with or fix these quality issues. To better manage this …

Detection of Technical Debt in Java Source Code

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Technical debt (TD) describes the additional costs that emerge when developers have opted for a quick and easy solution to a problem, rather than a more effective and well-designed, but time-consuming approach. Self-Admitted Technical Debts …